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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!jvnc.net!news From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: SLIP and router Message-ID: <D3L7Cz.Iu@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Reply-To: jlucas@uvi.edu Organization: University of the Virgin Islands References: <3h0gn8$d3g@tipellium.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 16:34:10 GMT Lines: 23 In article <3h0gn8$d3g@tipellium.apana.org.au>, hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) writes: >brendt@dip1.ee.uct.ac.za (Brendt Wohlberg) writes: > >>Is it possible to use a FreeBSD machine (connected to the >>Internet by SLIP) as a router for the local network? If so, are there >>any particular complications involved, or is it a matter of setting up >>the SLIP connection and compiling the router options into the kernel? > >That's all that's required. options GATEWAY in the kernel, default route >in the routing tables, and a slip connection. > One caveat here: Is your network registered with the NIC? If you have only one IP address for your FreeBSD host, then where do the other hosts on your net get their IP addresses? Your posting didn't make your situation clear and I would hate to give uninitiated readers the impression that they all they need to get their net up is to build a router. -- | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |